The 847 does not allow dual in band operation. If you think about it you
would need very respectable filtering more than 100db isolation between
the transmitter and receiver to be able to pull this off. In effect you
are asking it to be a repeater. It can do this only when transmit and
receive
.
Bill
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From: Floyd Rodgers
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2014 8:50 AM
To: Bill (W1PA) ; amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AMSAT FD 2014 debrief
The 847 does not allow dual in band operation. If you think
about it you
would need very respectable filtering more than
01, 2014 8:50 AM
To: Bill (W1PA) ; amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AMSAT FD 2014 debrief
The 847 does not allow dual in band operation. If you think about it you
would need very respectable filtering more than 100db isolation between
the transmitter and receiver to be able to pull
Message- From: Floyd Rodgers
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2014 8:50 AM
To: Bill (W1PA) ; amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AMSAT FD 2014 debrief
The 847 does not allow dual in band operation. If you think about it you
would need very respectable filtering more than 100db isolation
Thanks guys. I forget that SatPC32 is in fact a cluster of
programs.
Bill W1PA
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I am not familiar with SATPC32, so I cannot answer that.
I think I recall discussions in the archives about using a non stantdard
split not in SAT mode on the 847, but you can search the archives to
confirm. We actually used an icom 821h with a 5 element beam for
terrestrial qso's (without
Using a modest set-up, I was able to give our local club
(W1BIM) their bonus
satellite contact on FO-29 Saturday afternoon (thanks to the
team at W1AW/3).
It was on the third pass attempt.
I ran a FT-847 barefoot with an 11 ele yagi on 436 and a 3
ele yagi on 2m.
I ran SatPC32 with the
